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...CeclorCD donation underscores what many aid workers consider a growing problem. Huge quantities of inappropriate and sometimes expired medicines and health pills are being sent to trouble spots from Bosnia to Burundi, tying up overstretched health staff and logistical resources and posing a risk to recipients who may take them for the wrong reasons or after they have begun to deteriorate. Donors include U.S. pharmaceutical companies that receive a substantial tax benefit in exchange for exporting unused stock, as well as pharmacies and individuals around the world who may not know any better...
...Buchanan declared, "The U.S. should stand up for values, shared values. Why are we more shocked when a dozen people are killed in Vilnius than a massacre in Burundi? Because they are white people. That's who we are. That's where America comes from." All this from the mouth of the man who purports to distance himself from David Duke, Larry Pratt and Sandy Lamb so as to dissociate himself from white supremacy. Very convincing, Mr. Buchanan...
...Burundians, mostly Hutu, have escaped into Zaire and Tanzania, adding to nearly 2 million Rwandan refugees camped in those countries and refusing to go home. Earlier this month those numbers increased sharply when Rwandan Hutu from the Mugano and Ntamba camps, who had sought refuge in Burundi from their own civil war, fled fighting in the area and made for the Tanzanian border. Some 20,000 managed to get across. With an additional 130,000 increasingly anxious Rwandan Hutu still in Burundi, another refugee crisis seems imminent...
Dismayed by the worsening situation and the potential for even greater carnage should the shaky coalition government collapse, the U.N.'s Boutros-Ghali has once again called for foreign intervention. Few observers would dispute that Burundi needs help. But the Secretary-General's proposal for a quick-reaction force based in Zaire or Tanzania that could intervene "in the event of a sudden deterioration of the situation" has so far met with only a lukewarm response. Western governments, wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with...
...leadership, so effective in engineering the current peace accord in Bosnia, has yet to play a significant role in Burundi. Although National Security Adviser Anthony Lake has voiced a keen interest in the region and regularly holds meetings on Burundi with senior Administration officials, and although U.N. envoy Albright visited the country on Jan. 20 to warn against any party's seizing power by force, such efforts have yet to produce noticeable results on the ground. Humanitarian considerations aside, Washington does have cause for concern. In 1994 the U.S. spent more than half a billion dollars to assist the victims...